The six-hour bombardment was the worst in city history, according to the Guardian, which has closely followed the conflict between the two since early 2022.
Early on Saturday, we heard a drone flying over the Pablorado. There was a cacophony boom and an orange explosion illuminating the night sky. The streets were echoed by machine gun fire as anti-aircraft units tried to fire them down.
The attack came shortly after General Keith Kellogg, a Trump special envoy to Ukraine, returned to Washington after six days of visit to Kiev. The White House announced a massive weapons package to Ukraine this week, including an additional patriot-to-air system paid by European allies.
The Kremlin refrained from carrying out massive fires while Kellogg was in the country. As Keith sounds like Kit, or a Ukrainian cat, social media was flooded with memes portraying Kellogg as a cat protecting the capital.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday promised that Moscow would escalate an air attack in response to the latest EU sanctions package agreed after Moscow eased the objections after Moscow was in the hands of the Slovak Prokremlin government.
Pavlohrad is the strategic hub of Dnipropetrovsk oblast. Russian troops are approaching the acquisition of territory in areas adjacent to Donetsk Province for the first time since the start of the conflict. Russian troops have recently taken over several nearby villages, capturing several nearby villages.
MNA